Re: Smart TV
"It will still be connected to an external network: where do you think the pretty pictures and sound come from? Not all the bandwidth consumed by digital TV is content, some of it is guide data, Red Button stuff and other things like update signals."
You make a good point. In theory an update message could be broadcast across Freeview, FreeSat, Sky or VM Cable. But has that ever been done? Sky and VM Cable boxes get updates from the mothership, as do some Freeview boxes but I don't recall any TV manufacturers doing so, at least not for firmware/OS updates. Has anyone seen this in the wild?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
